Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Monshipouri, Mahmood
Other Authors:	Englehart, Neil, Nathan, Andrew J.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2003.
Subjects:	Civil rights. Human rights. Human rights and globalization. Civil rights Human rights Human rights and globalization
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Table of Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Observing Human Rights in an Age of Globalization; Part I. The Struggle to Control the Human Rights Regime; 1. Who Owns Our Culture? Intellectual Property, Human Rights, and Globalization; 2. The Consequences of a Constructed Universal: Democracy and Civil Rights in the Modern State; 3. Reflections on the Intersections of Environment, Development, and Human Rights in the Context of Globalization.
4. Translating a Liberal Feminism: Revisiting Susan Okin on Freedom, Culture, and Women's RightsPart II. The Dynamics and Counterdynamics of Globalization; 5. The Politics of Culture and Human Rights in Iran: Globalizing and Localizing Dynamics; 6. Outside Actors and the Pursuit of Civil Society in China: Harnessing the Forces of Globalization; 7. Globalization and Human Rights for Workers in China: Convergence or Collision?; 8. Localizing Human Rights in an Era of Globalization: The Case of Hong Kong; Part III. Setting the Terms of Debate: Pursuing Global Consensus.
9. The Challenges to International Human Rights10. Obstacles on the Road to an Overlapping Consensus on Human Rights; 11. Globalizing Cultural Values: International Human Rights Discourse as Moral Persuasion; 12. Suffering as Common Ground; Conclusion: Reconstructing Human Rights in the Global Society; About the Contributors; Index.

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